Cyber Threats to Parks and Rec

Your city being held for ransom isn’t the worst-case scenario; what happens after may be the worst case scenario.

So much attention has been paid to “election hacking” and the like in recent years, analysts and commentators have effectively forgotten an equally if not more pressing threat to American government at all levels: ransomware. We cannot fix the reading comprehension problems and poor critical thinking skills of more than half the nation’s population in a meaningful time-frame, but we can make…